Gas Leak Forces Evacuation in Utah 1.1.2013

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Gas Leak Forces Evacuation in Utah

USA
Isolated Incident // Gas Leak

A natural gas leak forced the evacuation
of at least 27 homes in West Valley City, Utah on Monday.
Evacuations began around 5:30 p.m. when Questar Gas workers found a
concentration of natural gas in the sewer near 5750 W 3500 S.
Questar Gas spokesman Darren Shepherd said they hope to let residents
back into their homes Monday night. If they are unable to let residents
go back to their homes, they will pay for overnight lodging for those
affected by the leak.

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Have
you got a New Years Resolution? We've got some we'll be happy to share.
But before you wear the silly paper hat, toot the party favor, or toss
the confetti, come feel the vibe on a Prepper's version of the Magic
Blue Bus. Plus, don't forget to catch the thorough write-up about the
APN by Salon.com. Closing out 2012 and starting a week off right, we
present your American Preppers Network weekly newsletter.

Prepare to be Resolved

by Robert Hawkins

"AMATEUR NIGHT", as the bartenders call it, is upon us.New Years Eve brings out champagne & confetti all over the world. Another year is history, and a new year begins. "The Year to End All Years"
comes to a close, with doomsday soothsayers claiming December 21 as the
end of the world, now going back to recheck their calculations and
consult crystal balls...12/21/12 came & went like just another day.
It's not that all those "end-timers" got it wrong, it's just that common
sense got it right.

What's
certain in it all is that trying to predict the future is like pushing a
rope... try all you want but just don't get anywhere. Even a Vegas
craps dealer will tell you smart money bets on the pass, instead of the
come, the odds are better.

Still,
as preppers, we anticipate hard times. we're motivated to prepare for
things happening which may upset our applecart, and it's in our nature
to aim on having resources available to manage adversity. You can't
rationally prepare for the end of the world, but the loss of a job, an
illness, a power outage, or the check not showing up in today's mail... that's all something we can work on.

Since
it's common to set resolutions each New Year... lose weight (my
personal resolution), stop smoking, etc. it's a no-brainer to set
resolutions that reflect a Prepper nature. Namely, to be more self-reliant, self-sustaining, and less dependent on outside resources. And to achieve all that, it's smart not to bite off more than one can chew. Set resolutions that are easily met, like... RESOLUTION #1 Cut the power bill in half.It'd
be nice to totally live off grid...stoke a fire, tilt a solar panel, or
spin a windmill, and have all the electricity you need with no bill
every month. But too often adopting new technology can be too expensive,
too complicated, or simply not feasible for one reason or another. But
that's no reason not even try. One of the best methods of achieving
independence is in scaling back demand of what you already use. More
energy efficient appliances, less lights on, lower wattage lightbulbs,
better home insulation, all of these work together to make your power
bill less, as well as easing your dependence on the juice from the power
company's meter.

RESOLUTION #2Water use...It don't grow on trees you know...Most
urban dwellers don't give a second thought with a glass of water always
available straight from the tap... heck, most SUB-urban types take it
for granted too. But water is precious when it's availability is
removed. What can a Prepper resolve to do? How about an alternate water
source like a rainwater collector, or investing in a private well? Water
conservation can take a practical form, with low water volume flush
toilets, or limiting the use of sink garbage disposals. Even a larger
capacity, energy & water saving washer can go far to decrease your
water demand.

RESOLUTION #3 Feeding the Gas-starved BeastWe
ALL drive somewhere. To work, from work, to school, from school,
wherever. Everyone is at least 10 miles from wherever they need to be,
and EVERYONE is getting gas at the pump. While we can all wish for
happier times and cheaper gas, it's akin to banking on Zombies invading
the local Save-Mart for the Fresh Brains 2-for-one-special... it's not
going to happen. So, a smart Prepper would resolve to wean off the use
of the car or better yet, find a way-cheaper, gas-miserly ride. Didn't
you know it ain't cool to own a SUV anymore? And it may hurt at first,
but as my Dad would say..."It wouldn't kill you to WALK!"

RESOLUTION #4 Plan for no plan.Sounds weird, but there's practical logic there. Think about all those Preppers who fully anticipated Man-eating Flying Monkeys from Mars invading on 12/21, and who stocked up on Flying Monkey repellent, dug a Monkey-proof bunker, only to see Mad Flying Monkey Day come & go, WITH NO FLYING MONKEYS!The
plan kinda went south. Now craigslist & ebay is flooded with cheap
selling Monkey-proof bunkers, and all the repellent you can carry. What
this means is resolve NOT to keep getting too focused on any one thing in your preps. Prepare, but prepare for ANYTHING.

These
resolutions are a start, they offer the right direction we can all take
in this coming New Year. In any event, how this next year shapes up,
better or worse than the last, will ultimately be determined on how
resolute you are in making it the best it can be. So Happy New Year & Prepare to be Resolved! - RHRobert HawkinsIf
he's not on the internet, he's on his Ham Radio! Robert Hawkins
(KI4HEE) always keeps Prepping in his thoughts. While on his second
career in the Media Arts, Hawkins promotes the spirit of Preppers
through his efforts as an administrator of the APN Open Group on
Facebook, and other APN media projects.

PREPPERPRESS...

What's a "prepper"?

With reports circulating that Nancy Lanza was a survivalist, questions emerge about the movementBY KATIE MCDONOUGH

In
an interview with local NBC affiliate WHDH 7 in New Hampshire this
weekend, Marsha Lanza recalled that the last time she saw her sister
Nancy, the conversation turned to disaster preparedness.

"Last
time we visited with her in person we talked about prepping and, you
know, are you ready for what can happen down the line when the economy
collapses."

Since
then, subsequent reports have suggested Nancy Lanza - the mother and
first victim of Newtown, Conn., shooter Adam Lanza - may have been part
of a survivalist movement known as "preppers." And while it may prove
impossible to confirm her affiliation in this loosely organized network
of gun enthusiasts, back-to-the-land types and the generically cautious,
the tragedy at Sandy Hook has invited increased scrutiny. READ MORE

(The Salon article was a thorough article, but of course they had to throw in a little spin towards the end)

BLACK
MOUNTAIN, N.C. - When an unexpected summer storm knocked out power
across the mid-Atlantic region in July, more than 4 million people went
without power for up to two weeks.

Throughout the summer, a severe drought across much of the country also put a serious strain on the nation's infrastructure.

Couple
that with the threat of a currency collapse, civil unrest, and other
nightmare scenarios - stocking up for the unexpected is looking smarter
all the time. READ MORE

SELL YOUR STUFF CHEAP!

Actually, don't sell your stuff cheap, sell your stuff efficiently
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When
it comes to preparing for economic collapse, job loss & natural
disasters, we are taught to store food those hard times.

Let's
face it, with all the information out there on how to store your food,
it can get mighty confusing. Flour seems to be controversial as to
how long it is *safe* to store. After much research, I put together a
list of facts I have found on many different types of flours. Remember
to do a basic test of any staples before using them. Observe and
smell. If either test fails, then be safe and toss it out.

All Purpose Flour is
a blend of hard and soft wheat. As one of the most commonly used
flours in America, it can be bleached or unbleached. Chemically
treated flour is labeled bleached and flour that is allowed to age
naturally is considered unbleached.

Shelf life:
If properly sealed or wrapped, all-purpose flour should last safely on
your shelf for 10-15 months. If refrigerated, then up to 24 months. I
found reports of people who have used it well beyond this (but not too
many) and that is up to you. Heat and moisture accelerate staleness,
so store in a cool, dry place. When weather is hot and humid outside,
store it in your freezer.

Bread Flour
is made from hard, high protein wheat. It is unbleached and
conditioned with ascorbic acid. This creates better texture and
increases volume. Bread flour is used primarily with yeast products.

Shelf
Life: If properly sealed or wrapped in an air tight container bread
flour can last 6 months on the shelf or up to a year in the freezer.

Head injuries
can be soft tissue injuries (brain, scalp, blood vessels) or bony
injuries (skull, facial bones), so I've placed this section between
soft tissue and orthopedic problems. Damage is usually caused by
direct impact, such as a laceration in the scalp or a fracture of the
part of the skull that contains the brain (also called the "cranium").
An "open" head injury means that the skull has been penetrated,
possibly exposing the brain tissue; if the skull is not fractured, it
is referred to as a "closed" injury.

Damage can
also be caused by the rebound of the brain against the inside walls of
the skull; this may cause tearing of the blood vessels in the brain,
which can result in a hemorrhage. There may be no obvious penetrating
wound in this case; the original trauma may even have occurred at a
site other than the head. An example of this would be the violent
shaking of an infant or a serious case of "whiplash"

Each
week you'll receive videos, images or quotes promoting the concept of
Self-Reliance and individual responsibility. It's our hope these
messages will help with our mission of attaining "Freedom Through Teaching Others Self-Reliance"

An
audience gathered at the main stage to listen to Alan Madison talk
about his reality TV show on the National Geographic Channel, “Doomsday
Preppers,” whose second season began this month. “To me, it's like a
giant ...

Saturday, December 29, 2012

OK,We are not Known for our Hell-Bent Rants about Politics or the Government.Actually, We prefer to put up Information and let the Reader decide.Voting is a Privilege and a Right. Here, It is Respected as Such.Now,Let's see what our Elected Representatives have on their Plate:

A huge, under the rug swept, delayed, horribly negotiated Budget Bill that may/may not push our Nation over a Fiscal Curb, Cliff, Speed Bump, etc. That of which is not Acted on could cause Very Serious Repercussions in our financial Future

Funding for Hurricane Sandy Recovery (also Overdue and Important)

Decide whether to renew the NSA Warrant-less Wiretap Surveillance Program

The first, and undoubtedly the most important is yet again moved down the road to Monday.The Second was Passed with some Modifications.The Third, Well... Let's Backtrack a piece....

This Act Established the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The FISC oversees requests for surveillance warrants against suspected foreign intelligence agents inside the United States by federal law enforcement agencies (primarily the F.B.I.).

These are called FISA Warrants.

FISA warrant

Each application for one of these surveillance warrants (called a
FISA warrant) is made before an individual judge of the court. Like a grand jury, FISC is not an adversarial court: the federal government is the only party to its proceedings. However, the court may allow third parties to submit briefs as amici curiae.
When the Attorney General determines that an emergency exists he may
authorize the emergency employment of electronic surveillance before
obtaining the necessary authorization from the FISA court, after which
the Attorney General or his designee must notify a judge of the court
not more than 72 hours after the Attorney General authorizes such
surveillance.[2]

If an application is denied by one judge of the FISC, the federal
government is not allowed to make the same application to a different
judge of the court, but must appeal to the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review.
Such appeals are rare: the first appeal from the FISC to the Court of
Review was made in 2002, 24 years after the founding of the FISC.

It is also rare for FISA warrant requests to be turned down by the
court. Through the end of 2004, 18,761 warrants were granted, while just
five were rejected (many sources say four)[citation needed]
. Fewer than 200 requests had to be modified before being accepted,
almost all of them in 2003 and 2004. The four known rejected requests
were all from 2003, and all four were partially granted after being
resubmitted for reconsideration by the government. Of the requests that
had to be modified, few if any were before the year 2000. In subsequent
years, according to journalist Joshua Micah Marshall, the breakdown was as follows:[3]

Year

Modified requests

2000

1 request modified

2001

2 requests modified

2002

2 requests modified (both modifications later reversed)

2003

79 requests modified (out of 1724 granted)

2004

94 requests modified (out of 1758)

On May 17, 2002, the court rebuffed then-Attorney GeneralJohn Ashcroft, releasing an opinion that alleged that FBI and Justice Department
officials had "supplied erroneous information to the court in more than
75 applications for search warrants and wiretaps, including one signed
by then-FBI Director Louis J. Freeh".[4] Whether this rebuke is related to the court starting to require modification of drastically more requests in 2003 is unknown.
On December 16, 2005, the New York Times reported that the Bush administration had been conducting surveillance against U.S. citizens without the knowledge of the FISC since 2002.[5] On December 20, 2005, Judge James Robertson resigned his position with the FISC, apparently in protest of the secret surveillance.[6]
The government's apparent circumvention of the FISC started prior to
the increase in court-ordered modifications to warrant requests.

Closed hearings and classified proceedings

Because of the sensitive nature of its business, the FISC is a
"secret court": its hearings are closed to the public, and, while
records of the proceedings are kept, those records are also not
available to the public. (Copies of those records with classified information
redacted can and have been made public.) Due to the classified nature
of its proceedings, only government attorneys are usually permitted to
appear before the FISC. Due to the nature of the matters heard before
it, FISC hearings may need to take place at any time of day or night,
weekdays or weekends; thus, at least one judge must be "on call" at all
times to hear evidence and decide whether or not to issue a warrant.

Composition

When the court was founded, it was composed of seven federal district judges appointed by the Chief Justice of the United States, each serving a seven year term, with one judge being appointed each year. In 2001, the USA PATRIOT Act
expanded the court from seven to eleven judges, and required that at
least three of the judges of the court be from within twenty miles
(32 km) of the District of Columbia.
No judge may be appointed to this court more than once, and no judge
may be appointed to both the Court of Review and the FISC.

The Senate Passed the Bill 73-23, quickly. VERY Quickly.The House also passed the Bill with Equal Expediency.

Paul (KY) - posed adding an Amendment to require the Government to Provide a Warrant when Spying on e-mails and electronic media.

Wyden (OR) - posed adding an Amendment to require the Courts to notify the Citizen(s) if and when they have been Spied Upon by Mistake.

BOTH of these and Many other of these Amendments were Struck and the Bill was passed for the next 5 Years.This is the Time to notify your Elected Officials your Opinion on this action.Seems, when these folks want things to get done, they get done. Now we see what gets PriorityStay Informed.-MP

The U.S. Senate renewed the warrantless wiretapping program
begun during the George W. Bush administration by a 73 to 23 vote on
Friday, sending the FISA Amendments Act to President Barack Obama's desk
for his signature.

The vote marked a symbolic next step for the wiretapping program,
which collects Americans' communications with foreign intelligence
targets abroad. Four years ago, in the midst of the 2008 Democratic
presidential primary, an identical version of the bill was the subject
of a highly contentious debate in the Senate. Obama and others argued
then that Bush's program went too far in violating Americans' privacy.
This year, with a supportive Obama in the Oval Office and the media
focus on the fiscal cliff, the bill was renewed with much less
attention.

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Watching some of the non-coverage about the Bayou Corne, LA Sinkhole, We've noticed some Recent Alarming Trends:

Increasing Out-Gassing and Plume Activity over the Past 2 Weeks

Increasing Displacement of Seawater, Brackish, and Contaminated Water emerging from Hole

Increased Seismic Activity in the Area (Non-Fracking Related)

Increased Seismic Activity near New Madrid Fault Zone

No News Coverage (not really a Pre-Cursor)

We are Committed to Bring you the Facts and Updates on these Events as well as Others.We do not and cannot imply the Prediction or Actual Emergency Announcement.We are Truth-Seekers and will Watch Signs as they Appear.We are not Experts "in the field". Being Prepared for Disasters and Emergencies is a Process.A Process that involves, Commitment, Planning, Training, and Practice.Not a Bad Time to Practice with the Recent Storms, Winter and Spring Storm Season coming.We'll be with You.-MP

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

From Our FB Page:

Happy Holidays from Madtown Preppers!!! Under the Tree: Best of Madtown Preppers Blog 2012 #3: The "When Drone Attack!!!" Series!!!

We though it might be Amusing to Track the many different instances of
the "People here to Help You" actually using Technology to "Help You."

Well, the Amusing part was easily attained, but sadly is Waning, to say
"This isn't Funny anymore" is somewhat of an Understatement... Anyhoo, much easier to see the progression: "When Drones Attack!!!" - madtownpreppers.blogspot.com -Enjoy, MP 25.12.2012